Shahin Vallée
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Economist, think tanker. senior fellow DGAP, board member Observatory Group
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Benjamin Braun
3 days ago
Of all the ways in which crypto is a scourge, this is the most bonkers. 2025, year when brutal home invasions to steal laptops and crypto wallet passwords surged.
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Crypto Thieves Move Offline to Terrorize Investors at Home
Rising prices and the irreversible nature of crypto transactions have led to a surge of brutal home invasions and kidnappings.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-crypto-thieves-kidnappers/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=695815e53265bb00017552f3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&embedded-checkout=true
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Albert Pinto
16 days ago
Back when Mark Carney was a central banker he said that “In a multi-polar world, you need a multi-polar currency,”& said USD as a reserve currency is too risky & proposed a new digital currency to replace it. We asked Shahin Vallee to look into a global euro
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
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A Global Euro | Phenomenal World
With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-global-euro/
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Clémentine Goldszal
13 days ago
Faute de mieux, penser à eux
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but that’s not my first instinctive reaction. Quite incredible and deserving of a response. After European ICC judges / British prosecutor under US sanctions, a former EU commissioner... Soon members of HMG when one dares standing up to the US…
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Marcel Krueger
14 days ago
We're launching the final 2025 issue of
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today, on the theme of "Palimpsest".
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Albert Pinto
16 days ago
"We’ve got roughly 120 kWh sitting in our garage, thanks to our Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Ioniq. And we’ve got almost 40 kW of solar on the roof. So we’re already at the delicious point where we don’t get power bills - the energy company pays us."
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...
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EVs At The Tipping Point: Why You Don’t Want To Be A Late Adopter
These graphs tell an important story. On the left is how horses disappeared from cities once cars took off. On the right is the same kind of substitution curve - petrol and diesel powered cars giving ...
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-tv-but-for-cars-being-late-on-evs-now-looks-a-bit-silly
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Phenomenal World
16 days ago
“In June, Christine Lagarde declared ambitions to create a ‘global euro.’ Yet at neither the European Commission, nor the Eurogroup, nor the European Council, has a real discussion about internationalization taken place.” NEW by
@shahinvallee.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
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A Global Euro | Phenomenal World
With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-global-euro/
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Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/romney-tax-the-rich.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Polycrisis
17 days ago
NEW: In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes
@shahinvallee.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...
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A Global Euro | Phenomenal World
With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-global-euro/
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Very much agree with
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except his point 5. I don’t think the reparation loan will be revived. Europeans have proven they can do without.
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Thu Nguyen
about 1 month ago
How can the EU build stronger resilience amid global power shifts & unprecedented threats to its democracy, economy, security? Join us on 10 Dec for a discussion w/ excellent speakers
@dschwarzer.bsky.social
@shahinvallee.bsky.social
@georginaewright.bsky.social
www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Jacques Delors Centre
27 days ago
‼️Last chance to register! Today at 2pm CET, we have the pleasure to host this fantastic group of experts for our online panel following the
#PariserPlatzDialogue
. Register by 12pm and find out how the
#EU
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www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
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Jacques Delors Centre
about 1 month ago
❓ How can the France, Germany and the EU build greater resilience amid unprecedented threats that challenge long-standing assumptions? Find out at our discussion following the
#PariserPlatzDialogue
! 🗓️ 10 December, 2:00 - 3:30pm, online via
#Zoom
. Sign up now 👉
www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
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Public Panel: Europe’s Moment. Franco-German Action in the Wake of an Eroding Global Order
We cordially invite you to join this virtual conversation on 10 December 2025 as part of this year’s Pariser Platz Dialogue.
https://www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at-the-jacques-delors-centre/detail/event/public-panel-europes-moment-franco-german-action-in-the-wake-of-an-eroding-global-order
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Une belle emission sur le système monétaire international
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Dollar, Euro, Yuan et cryptomonnaies : le nouveau paysage monétaire
Entre remise en question de l'hégémonie du dollar, montée en puissance des cryptomonnaies et ambitions chinoises, la géo-finance redessine les rapports de force. Sommes-nous entrés dans une nouvelle è...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaires-etrangeres/dollar-euro-yuan-et-cryptomonnaies-le-nouveau-paysage-monetaire-1645710
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Past Present Future Podcast
about 2 months ago
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis? Find us at...🎧
ppfideas.com
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Mike McCarthy
2 months ago
How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with
@shahinvallee.bsky.social
to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!
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Joshua J. Friedman
2 months ago
Here's the early vote in the NYC mayor's race: 52% Mamdani, 40% Cuomo, 8% Sliwa. Stay tuned!
web.enrboenyc.us/OF11CY0PY3.h...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Agathe Demarais
2 months ago
France's budget drama will come at steep cost for public finances • Political instability and loss in investor confidence are fuelling borrowing costs • France's ten-year borrowing costs are now roughly on a par with those of Italy
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at the New School for the inaugural
@lrb.co.uk
lecture
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Albert Pinto
2 months ago
Extraordinary Mamdani speech defending Muslim life in the US. a breath of fresh air to see a politician standing up for principles. Standards in the US have fallen so low lately…
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Philippe Marlière
3 months ago
This is a truly great film, probably the best film I’ve seen in 2025 (it was released in France in 2024...). Boris Lojkine tackles the issue of immigration and its various layers of exploitation with realism and subtlety. Compelling and disturbing.
youtu.be/Rbs53_uMw9o
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THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE - Official HD Trailer - Only In Cinemas
YouTube video by PalaceFilms
https://youtu.be/Rbs53_uMw9o
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China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...
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China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/business/economy/china-rare-earths-supply-chain.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Monica DiLeo
3 months ago
New report out now with
@granthamlse.bsky.social
CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition"
cetex.org/publications...
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A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition - CETEx
This report recommends three principles for coping with the political uncertainty faced by central bankers.
https://cetex.org/publications/a-framework-for-central-banks-navigating-political-uncertainty-in-the-transition/
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Philippe Marlière
3 months ago
Par rapport à 2024: Le RN confirme sa large domination (33-34%). Le bloc macroniste recule nettement (14-16%). LR remontent un peu (12-13%). Reconquête en hausse (5-6%). Le NFP, le meilleur scénario, mais il mais baisse par rapport à 2024 (-4%). Le PS confirme qu’il est le premier parti à gauche.
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Henning Hoff
3 months ago
Great move! Merz is picking up on a proposal his predecessor as party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested to him in our pages back in May
ip-quarterly.com/en/op-ed-how...
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Sander Tordoir
3 months ago
One of the most important charts in the world - from Rush Doshi in the New York Times. Without its allies, the United States is woefully behind China in metrics of raw economic power. Too bad the US president does not seem to get it. 1/
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Past Present Future Podcast
4 months ago
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David talks to
@leaypi.bsky.social
about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation. Find us at...🎧
ppfideas.com
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Ben Abraham
4 months ago
Absolutely fantastic piece on the interfaces between climate risk and insurance in the Polycrisis newsletter today, by
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
and
@katemac.bsky.social
Not a doom loop, but “communities of fate” and the moral economy of the welfare state.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
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Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/insurance-in-the-polycrisis/
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Great speech on the foundational role of the rule of law for Europe and the Euro
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France’s curse and Bayrou’s political suicide
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France’s curse and Bayrou’s political suicide
Political woes and a ballooning deficit leave Paris searching for stability at home and credibility abroad
https://on.ft.com/4lZ4i7X
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A Reader of the FT
4 months ago
France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit— As he has done in the past, Macron should force Bayrou to carry on his obligations temporarily as a caretaker and…
www.ft.com/content/1f8d...
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France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit
By calling for a confidence vote, the prime minister has renounced his duties and undermined the country’s credibility
https://www.ft.com/content/1f8d1093-3f65-472d-b1fb-7601e07cee0d
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France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit
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France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit
By calling for a confidence vote, the prime minister has renounced his duties and undermined the country’s credibility
https://on.ft.com/3JtO0X9
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Benjamin Braun
4 months ago
For reasons, checking in on foreign official holdings of US treasuries at the Fed. Now down $100 billion since 'Liberation day'. Note: That latest data point with the biggest weekly drop yet is from *before* Trump's attempted firing of the Fed governor. Next release will be interesting (Thursday).
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Benoît Coeuré
4 months ago
« Le monde ne nous regarde pas avec bienveillance : il n’attend pas la lenteur de nos rituels communautaires pour nous imposer sa force. [Il] exige de nous une transformation radicale. » Un nouvel avertissement salubre de Mario Draghi, via le
@grandcontinent.bsky.social
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Mario Draghi : comment changer la trajectoire de notre continent
Entre Gaza et Trump, dans un été marqué par l’inaction de l’Europe, le doute s’installe. En établissant un diagnostic sévère, Mario Draghi montre qu’il est possible d’agir — et d’espérer. Nous publ...
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/22/mario-draghi-comment-changer-la-trajectoire-de-notre-continent/
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Ian Dunt
4 months ago
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/politically-acceptable-uk-racism-is-on-the-rise-and-worse-this-is-under-progressive-labour-rule
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Jeremy Cliffe
4 months ago
“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy”
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Europe is selling its soul to Trump
What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism
https://on.ft.com/3HH41Ze
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Questions du soir
5 months ago
🪧 Le 17 août 2025, des dizaines de milliers d’Israéliens étaient rassemblés pour demander la fin de la guerre. Mais qu'en est-il du sort des
#palestiniens
? 👉 Quelques réponses avec Denis Charbit, politiste, Sylvaine Bulle, sociologue et Elad Lapidot, professeur d'études hébraïques
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Comment la société israélienne regarde-t-elle la guerre à Gaza ?
Le 17 août 2025, des dizaines de milliers personnes étaient rassemblées dans tout le pays pour demander la fin de la guerre. La libération des otages et la vie des soldats envoyés à la guerre étaient ...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/questions-du-soir-d-ete/comment-la-societe-israelienne-regarde-t-elle-la-guerre-a-gaza-1895151
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Phenomenal World
5 months ago
"Even if the 'window of opportunity' for a more profound Social Europe had been grasped in the 1970s, how different would it have turned out to be?" From 2023, Neil Warner reviews Social Europe, The Road not Taken, by Aurélie Dianara Andry
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Constructing “Social Europe” | Neil Warner
The long 1970s and alternative visions for EU integration
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/constructing-social-europe/
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Jeremy Cliffe
5 months ago
Spot-on by Gilles Gressani (
@grandcontinent.bsky.social
): "Europe’s submission [...] amounts to the rejection of any substantial autonomy in exchange for protection."
www.ft.com/content/0fa0...
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Europe’s ‘happy vassal’ complex
The EU is willingly colluding in its own subjugation to Trump’s geopolitical agenda
https://www.ft.com/content/0fa02c9e-9b02-4aa7-a07a-2387eba75b99
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Phenomenal World
5 months ago
On Monday, join us for: ARGENTINA’S DEBT TRAP A discussion on Argentina, debt, and the IMF with: Julia Strada, Chris Marsh, @nakedkeynes.bsky.social, Hernan Letcher, and Maria Haro Sly. Register here:
bit.ly/argentina-fmi
Below, a 🧵 on relevant pieces from the archive—
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Jonas Nahm
5 months ago
1/ Trump's recent trade agreements with allies are revealing significant interpretation gaps. From Japan to South Korea to the EU, these deals lack formal documentation, creating ongoing disputes over fundamental terms.
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Questions du soir
5 months ago
Peut-on sortir de la civilisation du
#plastique
? Une émission à réécouter sur le site france culture.
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Peut-on sortir de la civilisation du plastique ?
Alors que s'ouvre un nouveau tour de négociations pour un traité international contre la pollution plastique à Genève au siège des Nations Unies, se pose la question de l'omniprésence du plastique dan...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/questions-du-soir-d-ete/peut-on-sortir-de-la-civilisation-du-plastique-4437181
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Phenomenal World
5 months ago
"While EDIP and SAFE represent the EU's most ambitious defense industrial initiatives to date, their design reveals the persistence of the same fundamental contradictions that have shaped European defense policy for over seven decades."
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Military Unification? | Dimitri Zurstrassen
A critical juncture for a common European defense policy
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/military-unification/
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Franziska Wiest
8 months ago
My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.
@bupjournals.bsky.social
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Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families
Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...
https://doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y2025D000000064
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Questions du soir
5 months ago
« La fête est un moment de désordre organisé », d'après Philippe Steiner. 👉 Vous pouvez réécouter l'émission de vendredi « Où va la fête ? » avec Philippe Steiner, Emmanuelle Lallement et Alexandre Grondeau sur le site de France Culture.
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